July 26, 2020 AS delegates prepare to attend the Global Education Summit in London on July 28 and 29, African governments have been given a stark warning: make their spending on education more efficient to better transform young lives. Currently, many of these governments spend around five per cent of GDP on education, the second […]
By Mounira Chaieb, Editor, Presenter and Mentor at the ALC July 13, 2021 French Algerian visual artist Rachid Koraichi has created a unique cemetery to provide a dignified final resting place for hundreds of unburied migrants and refugees of all ages, nationalities and religions. The migrants’ bodies have been washed ashore along the coastline of Zarzis in the South […]
Tunde Zack-Williams, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Central Lancashire in the UK, has been, for the last 50 years, at the forefront of reshaping African Studies on the continent and in the West. He shares his experiences with Talking Africa. Image: ASAUK (African Studies Association UK)
Mounira Chaieb is a former BBC Arabic Service Journalist, Freelance writer and mentor at The African Leadership Centre.
Dr Albert Mbiatem from Cameroon, who recently co-authored a book, Whose Peace Are We Building? Leadership for Peace in Africa, with Youssef Mahmoud, tells Desmond Davies how the project evolved. He also spoke about the current state of leadership in Africa.
ICC sentences Ongwen to 25 years in prison May 7, 2021 DOMINIC Ongwen, who was abducted by the Ugandan rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) when he was 10, has been sentenced to 25 years in prison by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for 61 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Northern […]
UN peacekeeping has been beset with conflicting expectations and outcomes. Youssef Mahmoud, who headed two peacekeeping operations in Africa, gives an insight to the lessons he learnt during his stints at the helm of bringing peace and stability to intra-state conflicts.
ICC Appeals Chamber upholds Gbagbo’s acquittal April 1, 2021 THE Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court has upheld the acquittal by the ICC’s Trial Chamber in January 2019 of former President of Cote d’Ivoire, Laurent Gbagbo, and his ex-Minister of Sports and Youth, Charles Blé Goudé. The decision is final and all conditions on […]
Malawian tea workers awarded $3m for gender-based violence March 1, 2021 CAMELLIA Group, which owns tea estates in Malawi, has agreed to pay compensation of $3 million to 36 of its female employees who made claims of gender-based violence against the company. Represented by UK law firm Leigh Day, the women alleged that they had […]
New ICC Prosecutor urged to rise to challenge facing court February 18, 2020 THE new Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim Khan, has been urged by human rights bodies to rise to the challenge facing the court when he takes over in June from Fatou Bensouda from The Gambia who is stepping down […]